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Hiscox

Data Scientist

Hiscox

. Apply data science product lifecycle principles to new projects, including design, exploratory data analysis, building, evaluation, deployment, monitoring and maintenance .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeYork • United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudPandasPythonScikit-LearnSQLTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Apply data science product lifecycle principles to new projects, including design, exploratory data analysis, building, evaluation, deployment, monitoring and maintenance
  • Develop production data science models, monitor performance and manage their lifecycle through retraining, optimisation and upgrades
  • Work end to end on data solutions by understanding complex business challenges, designing scientific solutions and analysing large and small datasets
  • Use third-party and internal data with machine learning or statistical modelling techniques to derive insights
  • Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, pricing teams and other technical stakeholders
  • Support the maturation of the analytics practice within the organisation
  • Write high-quality Python code for model training and deployment
  • Research new techniques and technologies and communicate findings to the team
  • Communicate data science opportunities and solutions to business stakeholders
  • Conceptualise new approaches, communicate vision and see solutions through to implementation

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experience of data science, advanced analytics or a genuine interest to learn
  • Ability to conduct high quality research independently and in small teams
  • Familiarity with version control and other IT delivery tools
  • Understanding of applying machine learning to business problems
  • Experience developing predictive and prescriptive analysis, predictive modelling, machine learning or data mining
  • Exceptional written communication and effective presentation skills
  • Willingness to learn software development best practices
  • Strong Python programming skills
  • Experience of TDD, including pytest or another testing framework
  • Graduate or postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience in a relevant discipline is nice to have
  • Experience in finance, insurance or eCommerce is advantageous but not required
  • Experience deploying in a cloud environment is nice to have
  • Experience with neural networks, TensorFlow, CatBoost, XGBoost, scikit-learn and Pandas is nice to have
  • API development experience is nice to have
  • SQL experience is nice to have
  • Software engineering experience is nice to have
  • DevOps/MLOps experience is nice to have
  • Good working understanding of CI/CD is nice to have

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Hybrid working with the successful candidate anticipated to be in the office up to 2 days per week
  • Flexible working support
  • Inclusive culture and commitment to diversity
  • Opportunity to work with a core team of data scientists, engineers and analysts
  • Opportunity for continuous development of knowledge and experience